jBlack Agenda Radio for Week of March 26, 2018
Baraka on Leftists That Collaborate with Empire
āWe have not made a revolution in the U.S., but we have all these ārevolutionary theoristsā that know exactly how to do that,ā said Black Alliance for Peace national organizer Ajamu Baraka, sarcastically. He recently returned from a conference in Caracas in solidarity with Venezuela. Baraka called ācollaborationā with U.S. aggressions against Venezuela and Syria āreally shameful on the part of people who call themselves leftists or radicals or whatever.ā Any genuine left must oppose imperialism. āOur position, as citizens of empire, is to put a brake on empire.ā
U.S. at Peace? Some Americans Think So
The U.S. Senate voted down, 55 to 44, a bill co-sponsored by Bernie Sanders that would have ended U.S. involvement in the Saudi Arabia-led war against Yemen. However, veteran anti-war activist David Swanson saw the action as a sign of progress, given that the Senate has never conducted such a vote based on the War Powers Act. Swanson, publisher of the influential web site WarIsACrime.org and director of World Beyond War, has found that Americans āaround the country think that the U.S. is at peace, or think itās engaged in a war somewhere, but canāt remember the name of the country.
Outlaw Poverty, Says Activist
Nyle Fort, an activist with the Poor Peopleās Campaign, was among the speakers at a New York City event designed to bring Black and immigrant communities together on issues of mass incarceration and deportation. Fort urged the crowd to ādream of a world where poverty is illegal.ā The event, held at Manhattanās Holy Rood Church, was titled āBreak Down Walls and Prison Plantations: Mumia, Migrants and Movements for Liberation.ā
Theft is Part of U.S. DNA
You canāt understand the present-day United States if you donāt know its bloody history, said Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, author of An Indigenous Peopleās History of the United States and her new book, Loaded: A Disarming History of the Second Amendment. The nationās roots in organized theft of labor and land explains āwhy we have a real estate broker as president, just like our first president, the land speculator George Washington.ā
Black Agenda Radio on the Progressive Radio Network is hosted by Glen Ford and Nellie Bailey. A new edition of the program airs every Monday at 11:am ET on PRN. Length: one hour.
In this weekās segment we talk about jails and prisons in New York City and State and the end of city control of the infamous Rikers Island jail. But first a Washington DC activist analyzes how theā¦
Afeni is an activist and lead organizer with Herb and Temple in Washington, DC. She joins us from Oakland to discuss politics in the U.S. and how the people can fight the fascism produced by theā¦
Our guest is Melanie Dominguez, Organizing Director, New York with the Katal Center for Equity, Health, and Justice. She joins us from New York City to discuss the federal takeover of Rikers Islandā¦
The late Charles Rangel served as a member of the Congressional Black Caucus for more than 40 years. But the goals of Black politics and electoral politics are not necessarily the same.
āIn theory and in practice, then, Zionism is a degraded repetition of European imperialism.ā
